TOLLERTON is a township and considerable village, with a station on the York and Thirsk section of the North Eastern railway, in the parish of Alne, from which it is 1 ½ miles south-east and 4 south from Easingwold, in Easingwold union; the village is situated on the border of the ancient forest of Galtres, and near the banks of the small river Kyle, which is supposed to have been formerly navigable; in 1815 part of a vessel was found here. The Wesleyan chapel here was erected in 1869, at a cost of £733. A pleasure fair is held yearly on the 15th of August. There are two corn mills and one malt-kiln. Sir George O. Wombwell bart. is lord of the manor, but the land is mostly held by various freehold owners. The soil is various; the subsoil is chiefly clay. The chief crops are barley, oats, turnips and potatoes. The area is 2,201 acres; rateable value, £10,038; the population in 1911 was 487.

Public Elementary (Wesleyan) school (mixed), erected in 1857, at a cost of 800, defrayed by subscription & a grant, for 150 children; average attendance, 95.